Nobody really knows what they want to do when they "grow up". Some people say that they have a specific career planned out, but the thing about plans is that they change. One day someone wants to be an astronaut, the next a mechanical engineer that creates the devices that go into space, and again the next they want to be a physicist or astronomer. A popular saying among military personnel (while I am not one I hold a large amount of respect for those individuals) is that "no plan survives contact with the enemy." In this situation the "enemy" is reality. This isn't some sort of nihilistic vibe that I'm going for, but rather a statement about the world as we know it. In High  School people constantly ask you what you want to do when you grow up. The reality of the situation is that the adults are asking that very same question of themselves. Nobody really knows what they want to do when they grow up because, as far as I can tell, no one really feels like they've grown up. Yes people can feel like adults, but that is hardly the same. People are always growing and learning, and if there is one thing I have learned in my life it's that the moment a person stops doing those things, he (or she, women can grow too) stops living. There is no such thing as a "grown up" because that implies that the person has stopped growing. Personally I hope to never stop growing. I want to one day know everything, because knowledge is just an amazing thing. I use the words "hope" and "one day" to remove the need for a plan. I don't have a plan. I have goals, I have objectives, but I don't have a plan, after all, I wouldn't want something I put so much time and effort into to die on me as soon as it saw the light of day. Understand, I am not anti-plan. Plans are good, they have a purpose, but I'm anything if not flexible.

All of this of course is to say "Hello, I'm Patrick Brinson, I would like to one day be an editor. Right now, I'm doing this. We'll see what happens next."